Description

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, sent home from Africa by his superiors after twenty five years, and the seven-year-old child of Chris, the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the lives of this family, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape of which they are a part.

The play was first performed in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin on 24th April 1990.

Wed 28 & Thur 29 March 2018 at 8pm

LIFFORD PLAYERSLifford Players were formed in the early 1950s by staff from Donegal County Council and Lifford Post Office. They have been performing on the Amateur Drama Circuit since then. Their most recent productions have been ‘A Crucial Week in the Life of a Grocer’s Assistant’ by Tom Murphy’ and ‘Allo Allo’by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft in 2016 and Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh in 2017.